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...mistake, and he should have known. The late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the moody genius who had made his raucous New York Daily News the biggest U.S. newspaper, said that the suburbs of New York City wouldn't go for a tabloid "home paper." But daughter Alicia Patterson Guggenheim had the stubborn streak of all the Medill clan. Eight years ago, in a drafty garage at Hempstead, L.I., she started the tabloid Newsday, to prove her father wrong...
...time, brown-haired Alicia was a competent pilot, a Daily News book reviewer, and childless. She was also bored; she wanted a paper of her own, not to make money (she still draws no salary) but as an outlet for her restless energy. She talked her husband, Harry Frank Guggenheim, of the wealthy copper and nitrate family, into putting up the cash. It cost him, eventually, $750,000. Newsday, out of the red for two years, is now paying him back...
...year's top prize. Insisted Director McKinney: "The finest picture in the whole show." It was a sodden, ragged and barren landscape under a strawberry-tinted sky, done by a soft-spoken 32-year-old Virginian named Mitchell Jamieson. To Painter Jamieson, in Paris last week on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study European masters, the news hit the spot. "I planned on going to an art exhibition with my wife this afternoon," he said when he was asked about it, "but now I guess we'll go to the nearest...
...Mexico Berman made a rapid recovery. He went down on a Guggenheim Fellowship, carrying a Brownie, and returned with a suitcase full of snapshots to use for filling in the details of his imaginary compositions. He found the life of the Indians, in rags beneath their ancient monuments, as moving and vivid as his gloomiest dream. "There's always some disaster," he says happily. "They spend half their lives in the fields and on the roads-without an auto, without a Frigidaire. The bareness is what appeals...
Other 'Cliffedwellers appointed to yearbook posts were as follows: managing editor, Rita Guggenheim; literary editor, Anne Tolstoi; business manager, Ann Devney; circulation manager, suzanne Watson. All are in the Class...